I’ve just put a new blog entry up, reviewing The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, winner of 2008 Man Booker prize, and one of our choices for the January show (which will be broadcast soon!)
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
I just had a look at the Man Booker Prize winner archives (http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive) and was depressed and embarrassed to discover that this was only the second of the forty book list that I’ve read. The first, Pat Barker’s Ghost Road I don’t really remember except as part of the Regeneration Trilogy. And me an English [...]
(Belated) Quote of the Week
“Tout est dit et l’on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu’il y a des hommes et qui pensent.” (Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.) Jean de la Bruyere 1645-1696.
Sorry I was late again this week – and thanks to the [...]
Quote of the Week (oops a day late…sorry!)
“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.” – Stephen King, Cell.
Nominated by Rob on the forum – post your nominations in the suggestion box.
New Blog Post
I’ve just put up a new post – reviewing Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Check it out, and comment on the forum!
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
This is one of those books which has been hovering near the bottom of my “to read” pile for a few years. I’d heard it was good but never quite got round to it. But then I saw the film trailer. Now people who know me will know that I never see films – but my [...]
Quote of the Week:
“Even Rocky had a corsage” (Gill, Saturday evening.)
To nominate next week’s quote of the week hit the forums!
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
I’m finally catching up with my reading – and am now reviewing books I read during December. And what better to get you through the festive season than some post-apocalyptic dystopian teenage science fiction?! The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first novel in the Chaos Walking series, and has already won the Guardian [...]
Last Kiss of the Butterfly by Jill Hucklesby
This is the second teenage novel from Jill Hucklesby, after her success with Deeper than Blue – the story of a champion swimmer who is involved in a devastating car accident. This new novel is similarly cheerful, following the story of Jaz, whose beloved Mother is seriously ill with stomach cancer. Hucklesby seems to favour [...]
Little People in the City: the street art of Slinkachu
After a predictably irritating introduction from Will Self (I was fine about his discussion of satire in Gulliver’s Travels but when he wrote about the “evanescent existence of the diminutive in the great and troubling city” I began to grit my teeth) I felt that these photos and their titles spoke for themselves.
I’m a [...]
